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Warning: spoilers for last night’s Treme follow.
This was the first episode of Treme that I didn’t see in advance, and once I caught up with it, other deadlines got in the way. In the interest of putting it out there for your discussion, I’ll skip the big overview—the episode, it was pretty plain, focused on themes of homecoming and …
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I suppose the thing that really would have qualified as news would have been if NBC didn’t pick up a highly publicized, presumably less-than-cheap pilot from J.J. Abrams, but nonetheless: the network has given the go-ahead to Undercovers, the married-spies romance-drama.
Good thing that NBC doesn’t already have a romance-drama about a …
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That, anyway, is the word from The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, who reports that David Axelrod told him the Prez received jokes for his White House Correspondents’ Dinner standup from writers for The Daily Show. (For a review of Obama’s, and Jay Leno’s, performances, see this post from …
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Warning: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad:
The title of last night’s episode of Breaking Bad, “One Minute,” applies to both the horrifying first sequence of the episode and the terrifying final sequence of the episode. …
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Don’t quite have time for a full-on review of “Brown Betty,” last night’s episode of Fringe. But I’m not sure in any case that I could objectively review an episode that incorporates a musical detective story and begins with an elderly scientist listening to Yes’ awesome “Roundabout” while smoking a bong under the watchful gaze of a …
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I mentioned this in my review-blurb of last night’s The Office episode, “Body Language,” but it probably deserves its own post. According to deadline.com, Steve Carell has said that he will likely leave the sitcom after its next season. Now, that isn’t actually cast in cement. Carell has an active movie career and he may just be done …
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CBS’ 60 Minutes has teased some bits of Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’Brien, which airs Sunday. It turns out that Coco was pretty forthcoming with what he thought about the events of the Jaypocalypse—specifically Jay Leno’s taking back The Tonight Show after handing him the keys in 2009 (and saying in 2004 that he’s had a long …
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When you think about it, it’s surprising that there aren’t more reality shows about hedonistic, wild senior citizens. There’s an undercurrent of sadness, after all, to seeing young people drink their lives away and make questionable romantic choices on Jersey Shore or The Hills. They have entire long lives ahead of them to screw up. …
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To all those of you who watched Happy Town on ABC last night and hated it, I apologize for not having warned you away. I watched the screeners ABC made available and thought it was almost unwatchable: a clumsy, exposition-heavy compilation of horror and mystery-show clichés overlaid with a few Lynch-for-Dummies sinister-small-town …
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TIME magazine unveiled its “TIME 100” list of influential people today, and because it’s hard to be influential without the use of TV, television folk are all over it. The more-or-less TV-related personalities on the list include Conan O’Brien, Oprah Winfrey, Ashton Kutcher, Neil Patrick Harris (written about by Joss Whedon), Carlton …
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“My dad’s not like your dad. There’s nothing deep and dark inside. His hard candy shell is only hiding more candy.”
Because Jay is a central character on Modern Family, we’ve seen a lot of what makes Claire and Mitchell Claire and Mitchell. We haven’t had the same opportunity with Phil, so it was good to see Fred Willard as his dad …
